When your favorite team falls, how do you pick a new champion?

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now coming to you live from the Pick'em Pro studio
.
Here are your Pick'em.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Pros.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
Yeah, yeah, oh man, another episode here.
So, diego, you are out.
You're Warriors man.
Sorry, man, you didn't make it.
Christopher C Payne Davis, yourLakers lost about a year ago
and so I'm the last man standing.
You know, brianna, we didn'thear Brianna's pick.
So I know she got OKC, but thatwas late, so that doesn't

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technically count.
So I'm the champ, I'm thedefault champion man with my
Celtics.
We got a clip here of our guy,Diego, and then we're going to
start the show.
Pick them pros.
Okay, we're on record, diego,who you got in the finals facing
off and who's winning.

Speaker 4 (00:54):
I got the Golden State Warriors versus the Boston
Celtics, just like 2022.
And just like 2022, we're goingto beat them Because we got
both of their owners in the team.
Steph owned them three yearsago.
Bm in the finals beat udoka,beat all, all the crew.
Jimmy butler two years ago beatthe boston celtics in seven to

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go to the nba finals.
You pair both of those guystogether.
Oh boy, that's just you.
You can't stop that.
You just can't stop it.
I don't see how you stop it.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
We're going to submit you to be drug tested.

Speaker 4 (01:28):
We just beat them two weeks ago.
They're too small, they can'tmess with us.
They're too young, they don'thave enough experience.
We beat them and you're too old.
We have all the experience andwe have two amazing playoff
players.
Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
So the Warriors, it's going to be Warriors.
Celtics repeat 2022.
Warriors win the championshipis what you're saying.

Speaker 4 (01:56):
Okay, easy.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
Easy.
He says oh boy, Ladies andgentlemen, welcome back.
You know who it is.
I am Derek the championThompson, and I'm Diego Thompson
.

Speaker 5 (02:13):
I'm C-Pan Christopher Davis.
And who are we, the Pick'emPros?

Speaker 3 (02:18):
We are the Pick'em Pros coming back at you in the
house with a special episode,episode 135 of who you Got.
Oh man, beautiful day man, it'sjust the weather's great.
You in the house with a specialepisode, episode 135 of who you
got, oh man, beautiful day man,it's just the weather's great.
Uh, we got uh joe runningthings here in the studio.
Shout out to joe.
Shout out to summer behind thescenes.
Shout out to brandon behind thescenes.
Everyone that makes pick andpros go, everybody watching the

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show.
Thank you, so, so, so, so much.
Diego, my man, you don't haveaau today, so so happy to have
you here.
How you doing, man?

Speaker 4 (02:49):
man, I'm doing good.
Y'all expect me act all sad andstuff.
I mean, sure we lost that,that's not what we wanted.
But I mean we didn't have curryand we all knew if we had curry
we would have won thechampionship.
So I mean I'm I mean all thestuff I said in there is not.
I wasn't lying.
We would have beat all thoseteams and we still own the
Celtics.

Speaker 5 (03:09):
I was going to ask about that second-best playoff
player that you had, jimmyButler, and his shot attempts.
You know him.
Him was not really acting likehim.
He was a little shy.
He was a little gun shy.

Speaker 4 (03:22):
Him, he's Robin.
Okay, he said himself that he'sRobin.
He was a little shy, he was alittle gun shy.
Him, he's Robin.
Okay, he said himself that he'sRobin.
He was without Batman.
See, when Robin fights offBatman, he's always going to
lose, just always going to lose,because they need Batman.
You know, they didn't haveBatman.

Speaker 5 (03:35):
I wish I'm a comic nerd up here, but you got to
turn into Nightwing sometimes,man, you got to pull you got to
heal it when.
Batman go.
You going to need to turn toNightwing Red Hood somebody.
You can't be Robin, off the topyou got to do something.

Speaker 4 (03:49):
No Nightwing, just Robin.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
All right All right, man, man, yeah, man.
So let's stay on this for alittle bit, because we are an
NFL playoff, we got games.
This is such a beautiful timeof year to have games every
night, Isn't it?
Chris?
It is.
It's just so great to havegames every single night,
especially those of us that pickteams that are still in it.

Speaker 4 (04:11):
It's great to have you only got a few more hours
left.
Yeah, clock ticking Pumpkin isabout to Two days Two days.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
Yeah, yeah, yes, I'm the champion, no matter what
happens, my team has gone thefurthest, so I have yet another,
another ring on my.

Speaker 4 (04:28):
Technically it's a tie, though, because we both
like, because we both lost inthe same round.
You didn't advance farther thanme.
Have I lost you're good.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
Am I missing something?

Speaker 4 (04:38):
once you lose.
You wouldn't have advancedfarther than me.
We both lost in the same round.
If you advance, that mean youwould have won, but you didn't.
So this is the same.
It's the same.

Speaker 3 (04:49):
If, for some reason, the Knicks get lucky tonight, I
still would have gone further,okay, so yeah.

Speaker 4 (04:56):
I got it, so you lost the same amount.
We lost the same amount ofgames.
Okay, lost the same amount.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
Stop trying to hang on to my championship.
This is my championship.
It's mine, mine and only mine.

Speaker 4 (05:09):
If we had Curry, Curry would win his fifth
championship and be in the GOATconversation.

Speaker 3 (05:14):
He'd be right there with Jordan, I tried to In that
clip.
I said you're too old.
I said you're too old, justlike I told C-Pain.
You know when something lookstoo good to be true.
See all this wisdom.
This is this father and unclewisdom that I am imparting on
you, young bucks man.
You guys are going to be there.

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One day, man, you're going tohave all this wisdom and you're
going to be spewing it, butright now, you just learn it,
just learn, learn, peep gang,Peep gang.

Speaker 5 (05:44):
All right.

Speaker 4 (05:44):
Appreciate you for that, but fly jersey on.
That's football season.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
It's football season.

Speaker 4 (05:49):
Already.

Speaker 6 (05:50):
That's football season, yeah.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
Schedule release.
Football season is long wayaway.
The schedule's out.
The only people playingfootball right now is Clayton
High School.
Those are the only peopleplaying football right now.
That's it, that's it, that's it.
They're working on those runplayers, jet sweeps.
That's what they're working on.
We ain't passing All right, allright.

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So let's go, man.
Let's get into this first topichere.
Let's get into the injuries.

Speaker 4 (06:22):
Yes, the injuries, see that Injuries.

Speaker 5 (06:25):
Here's the cop out.

Speaker 3 (06:26):
Here it goes, here it comes uh, let's get into these
injuries here.
Okay, because there have been alot of injuries.
Okay, steph curry pulled hishammy, for those of you that
don't know.
Okay, uh, jason tatum okay, hehad an injury toward his
achilles, although bostonstepped up and won and swung the
ball, but that's neither herenor there.
I don't know why I brought thatup.

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Damian Lillard he gettingtoward his Achilles and it's
just been a lot of injuries.
Even before the Cavs dealt witha lot of injuries, diego, have
the injuries tainted the NBAplayoffs?

Speaker 4 (07:00):
I wouldn't.
I mean the playoffs still beenreally entertaining, but as far
as, like, who's advancing, thisdefinitely affected it.
Like I mean we all know Currywould have, you know, carried
them to win that series or thechampionship, I mean that was
affected.
The Celtics would.

(07:21):
I think the Celtics would havecame back from 2-0 if they had
Tatum and beat them Milwaukee ifthey had Dame.
I think the Pacers would havebeen gone in the first round and
the Cavs.
They had three starters, twoall-stars out and that cost them
to lose to the Pacers.
So yeah, they've definitelyaffected it, but the playoffs
they've still been entertaining.
There's still been a lot ofgood games going on, okay.

Speaker 5 (07:42):
All right, I never want to be a contrarian on this,
but again, in NBA history,injuries have been a part of
literally every single playoffrace, every playoff journey.
I mean shoot Draymond even cameup after the series and said
hey, listen, I won the finalswith Kevin Love and Kyrie.
I would think that we wouldstill win, but because of those

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injuries it did swing it.

Speaker 3 (08:07):
One thing I'm sorry to cut you off, but, LeBron, he
had the injury also, right he?

Speaker 4 (08:11):
got an ACL in Game 5.

Speaker 3 (08:15):
Game 5 was something.
Game 5, yeah, so that was itman, my bad.

Speaker 5 (08:19):
We forgot about LeBron.
Y'all just blew my mood.
I was happy, I was in a goodmood.
We wasn't talking about thelakers, we were just gonna focus
on the warriors, listen.
But now you had to bring meback here anyway.
But with that like injury andwith everything that's gone on
during these playoffs, it'sstill been entertaining.
It still has been fun seeing upand coming teams.
I did want to ask how do youthink the calf series was shaped

(08:41):
?
Because Because I'm of theopinion of A you were up by
eight in game two, even withDonovan Mitchell doing his full
thing, having an all-timeDonovan Mitchell game.
How do you forget to do aninbounds pass four straight
times?
You feel me.
How do you not get the rebound?
And let Tyrese Halliburton getthe rebound, you feel me, and

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let him get you for game?
So that contributed to why theylost that series more than them
being hurt.
And again Darius Garland wasnot himself and that that was
tough.
But again, I don't trust DariusGarland in those big moments,
I'm sorry.
I trust Evan Mobley was showingme something.
Jared Allen was showing mesomething.
Deandre Hunter he ain't do muchexcept get the guy ejected.

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So it's like did that reallycontribute or were the Cavs fake
?
What do you think?

Speaker 3 (09:30):
Man, I think it was injuries and I don't like how
everybody is not giving the Cavsa pass for that.
Everyone is saying that youknow the Cavs lost that series.
They're giving Indiana a wholelot of credit for that series.
I personally feel that the Cavsare going to be back next year
and I'm buying all the Cavsstock for next year because if

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the East is going to be in thestate that it is right now and
the Cavs come back whole sameroster, I'm putting the Cavs in
the NBA Finals easily becauseany tell me another team that
loses three starters that'sgoing to win the series.
I don't know of anything and soit's baffling to me that they
don't get a pass for havingthree starters hurt.

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But every other team that hadinjuries golden state loses one
player, one hall of fame,all-time top 10.
You, you know great player, butstill they lose three starters
and you know, all of a suddenthey choked and this and that I
think that's totally unfair.
I'm buying Cavs stock for nextseason.
If there is any place I can goand put something on it, I will

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put something on it right now.

Speaker 4 (10:40):
Yeah, yeah.
Also the Cavs yeah, theydefinitely, definitely would
have beat the Pacers they had.
They were healthy.
Easily, yeah, easily, yeah.
Nba finals.
I like that take for next yearNBA finals Cavs yeah, they got.
They got a lot to prove andMitchell's one of the best
playoff performers in theleagues.

Speaker 3 (10:58):
Yes, definitely happened.
Mitchell man, I saw that firein Mitchell's eye.
He was looking, looking seriousman.
A shout out to him because heplayed his heart out Again was
hunched over, looking like Luka.
He was so tired at the end ofthose games.
But no, he's going to be ready.

Speaker 5 (11:14):
He's going to be ready next year and guess where
he and Luka are at on the couchBecause again it was not enough.
And listen, I'm not going totalk bad about Donovan Mitchell
because he shows up everyplayoffs, but I'm just getting
more and more concerned with thefact that he hasn't gotten past
the second round, which againit's like, but again to me it's

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like it's the East, like I getit.
When you were with Utah, youfeel me, you were running into
some dogs and I'm like, listen,it's the East, and you're like a
one seat typically, likethere's no way you're not
getting past some of these guys.

Speaker 4 (11:47):
This is the first year he's been a one seat Like
the like.
Last year they ran to Boston.
Even before that it was, it wasthe Knicks.
I mean they could have got that, I mean last year you can.

Speaker 3 (12:01):
If you're going to get on him, I'd say that series
against the Knicks.
I think that's more of anindictment than this year or any
other year, definitely.
But yeah, I I believe in them,I believe in Mitchell, I believe
in them and he's one of the fewteams, he's one of the few
players, I should say, that cancarry his team to a second round

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appearance, his team to asecond round appearance.
Many of these, the freak, can'teven carry his team to the
second round anymore.
So you know, and we all putfreak in, you know top top five,
but let's bring in Brianna, ourathlete correspondent, because
we've got to get her take onthis.
And she said Nixon five, okay.

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So okay, nickix, you might beokay with that, but definitely
not nixon five no, not in five,but if they win tonight, they
could win.
It could be something you got,so, so it is your guy, okay.
So which?
Which bridges, which nikhilbridges, are going to show up
tonight?
All right, is it going to bethe one that's all brash talking

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junk, hitting shots, talkingabout we here, we ain't scared,
and all of that?
Or is it going to be the onethat showed up in the last game
when the Knicks got blown out?
Which one are we getting today?

Speaker 2 (13:17):
Bree, the first one.
He's going to be there.
He's going to be ready in hisdefense.
He's going to be ready in hisdefense.
He's going to get all therebounds.
He's going to be amazing.

Speaker 3 (13:25):
Going to be on one.
All right, so that New YorkKnicks crowd.
They're going to have thebattery back in his back and
he's going to be doing his thingtonight.

Speaker 2 (13:33):
Yep, they're all going to be good supporters and
they're going to help him be thebest he can tonight.

Speaker 3 (13:39):
Okay, all right, all right.
What do you guys think?

Speaker 4 (13:43):
Yeah, I got the Knicks tonight.

Speaker 5 (13:44):
Listen, they got to win tonight.
It can't go back to Bostonbecause again we're on the
precipice of history.
Everybody's joking about what'sgoing to happen if New York can
potentially win the finals,because now it's looking like, I
mean, I don't even know.
We're talking about thisNuggets Thunder series.
Who's going to come on top ofthat?

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But like I mean, if they playthe Wolves, I don't think it's
possible.
I don't know.
I'm very intrigued to see whatthe Knicks can do.

Speaker 3 (14:13):
Yeah, so, because we'll talk about the Celtics in
a minute, but just staying onthe injuries for a minute here.
Bree, we need to get your takeon the injuries.
How, bree, we need to get yourtake on the injuries?
How do you feel?
Have they tainted the playoffsat all?

Speaker 2 (14:28):
for you.
No, I mean all the teams that Ithink are going to win, all the
players on the other teams thatI don't think are going to get
hurt.
So it kind of helps my odds,Even though I feel bad, for like
Stephen Curry obviously I feelbad because I mean I love him so
much.
You know, know, I even had ajingle for him when I was little
.
Like I'm not gonna say itbecause it's embarrassing, but
you know I do like steph curry,so I feel bad for him obviously.

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But yeah I mean I don't know, Ijust don't really care.
I think it helps me in the end,which sounds so bad, but I mean
, it's what it is.
It is what it is.
At the end of the day, they'llbe fine.

Speaker 3 (15:04):
Yeah, they are.

Speaker 2 (15:07):
Like to play for game six, maybe possibly.

Speaker 3 (15:10):
Okay, okay, yeah, they are part of the game.
You know, last year, I mean,brunson had his injury.
There's always a team that'simpacted, so a lot of winning
the championship, it's a war ofattrition, so you have to stay
healthy.
Of winning the championship,it's a war of attrition, so you
have to stay healthy.
Some luck involved.
There's a lot of differentfactors involved, but health is
definitely a big factor.

(15:32):
Yes, so yeah, and you know, andeven speaking of brunson, we
may talk about that a littlemore but with brunson seems like
every other game he tweaks thatankle, he goes in, gets
something done, comes back, butI don't know If he keeps doing
that, every game, every othergame, something's going to

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happen.

Speaker 2 (15:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (15:55):
Especially against the Pacers, where, magically,
the star gets hurt.
That's my concern.

Speaker 3 (16:03):
Yeah, for sure, for sure.
All right, bree.
Well, I know again, you'redoing a bunch of great
interviews for us.
We've got Will Hernandez comingup, so we've got that coming
out next week.
Yeah, Really excited about that.
So great job there, and I thinkwe'll be seeing you later on
today or tonight to talk aboutthe NFL schedule.
Yes, on today or tonight totalk about the NFL schedule, and

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I know our guy Diego will besuper excited to talk some NFL
to get away from basketball.

Speaker 4 (16:31):
Carolina Panthers.
We're hype, all right.

Speaker 3 (16:38):
We'll see you a little later.

Speaker 5 (16:42):
Got to find joy in the void.
I've already been playing thisshoot.
I've been playing it a weekearly, diego.
You're finally, actually no,two weeks early technically.
Yeah, yeah, you finally arrivedon schedule.
Let's Carolina Panthers oh yeah, almost.

Speaker 3 (16:55):
All right, we'll relieve you guys and talk a
little bit of Panthers later.
Let me acknowledge some of thecomments that I've been seeing.
So, big Three is starting soon.
So, brandon, I know you putthat out there.
So, yeah, that's founded, theystart soon.
I think they had their draft.
I think there was a player youmessaged me and told me that I
think it was, was it LanceStevenson?

(17:17):
I think it was that you said isplaying with some.
There was a player that youmentioned that's playing Big
Three.
A lot of big people are playingthere, so a lot of great things
happening.
Wnba, I think, also startstonight, so we've got that.
And then I also saw a commentof Josh with his Cavs, and I
think he is definitely a bigCavs fan, so I think he liked

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the fact that there's somebodytaking up for him.
Yes, lance Stevenson, okay, hewill join the Big 3.
I thought so.

Speaker 1 (17:45):
Yeah, so that's big man, lance Stevenson Love.

Speaker 3 (17:48):
that, all right.
Well, we're going to talkCeltics here in a moment.
All right, yeah, now Nick'sgoing to lose the night, but
before we do that, we want toagain plug.
We will be at Kings here inRaleigh, north Carolina, three
weeks from tomorrow.
Oh man, we got a fire show.
Guests are being lined up.
We got like seven guests.

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We got all types of peoplecoming through.
We're going to have music, asalways.
We got high school athletes,we've got Gridiron Gang football
team, people to be named laterA lot of folks coming through.
You definitely want to comethrough and get your, get your
picks, and then let's see Wasthat a question?

(18:30):
Second chance picks, who we gotwinning the championship?
Yes, so actually, let's, let'stackle this.
So a question from Josh Secondchance who do you guys have
winning the championship?
So, of course I don't have to.
I'm still in it, so I don'thave to give a second chance
pick.
But for you two guys, since youhave to give a second chance

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pick, why don't you go ahead andgive your second chance pick,
since you have to do that, diego, when we start?

Speaker 4 (18:56):
seeing you might as well re-pick.

Speaker 6 (19:00):
You got a few hours left, I'm good.

Speaker 5 (19:04):
TikTok's irrelevant.

Speaker 4 (19:06):
Let's see, I got OKC.
Okc versus Boss.
No, not.

Speaker 1 (19:12):
Boss.

Speaker 4 (19:13):
OKC.
I think I taped him OKC versusthe Knicks.
Ok, in the finals I'm gettingtaken OKC and 5 against the
Knicks Ooh.

Speaker 5 (19:24):
Alright.
So so I got.
Actually, after that Nuggetsperformance, I'm a little scared
.
I'm a little scared.
I'm a stick with OKC.
I gotta hope to these.
I'm just so weirded out thatthey haven't announced the MVP
yet.
If they like, announce it atthe end of the game, regardless
if somebody loses.

(19:45):
Somebody said WWE style, justhanging above the ring like a
championship belt.
Let's just hang it in the arenaor something like that.
But man, I still have OKCwinning it versus the Knicks.
But I'm I don't know Jokic andthat guy Strother, he just came
out of nowhere last night.
I don't know Jokic and that guyStrother like he just came out

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of nowhere last night.
I don't know, never seen himbefore I ain't never like never
heard of him off the bench.
All of a sudden it's just likeoh all right, there's dog in
them, so we'll see.
But I got an okay seat still,but I'm a little scared.
I'm a little scared.

Speaker 3 (20:23):
Yeah, yeah.
Well, again, josh, I'm, youknow, sticking with my original
pick that I made.
I still have OKC and Celtics inthe finals.
I'm going to stick with that,so I don't have to.
Oh, you're sticking with Boston?
Then yeah, oh, yeah, Of course.

Speaker 4 (20:37):
Yeah, they're still in.

Speaker 5 (20:41):
I saw the vials.
I was like a little shiftythere All right man, nope, nope,
nope, sticking with it.
I'm good, not nervous at allwithout Jason Tatum, and so,
speaking of the Celtics.

Speaker 3 (20:49):
Now it's time to talk about the Celtics.
All right, so don'tunderestimate the heart of a
champion.
All right, the Celtics havethree, really four, olympians
and all stars.
All world players is out andJason Tatum get well soon, tatum

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.
However, the Celtics have avery strong team, very capable
team, and they actually have ateam that, as you saw from game
five, that will be able to movethe ball a little more, be a
little more scrappy, swing theball, swing, swing, swing, get
those open shots and they'rejust going to kind of play more
of a grit and grind Knicks style.

(21:30):
But the Celtics are so talentedthey can play Knicks ball
better than the Knicks.
So that's exactly what's goingto happen tonight.
And then, oh man, that thing, goback to Boston Monday night,
man, I might get a last minuteto roll out there and be out
there.
Man, me and my guy Julianprobably roll through Boston and

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be hanging with Bobby Brown andRicky and Mike and go down
there and check out the Celtics.
Yeah, man, it's a beautiful,it's a beautiful weekend, it's a
great time to be alive.
What's your take on the Celtics?

Speaker 4 (22:03):
man.
That's not going to happenbecause they're going to lose
tonight.
Jalen Brunson, he took thatsixth foul so that he could get
some extra.
Rest that ankle, very smart,yeah, very smart.
Rest that ankle for this nextgame and close it on out.
I expect a 40-piece, 10 assists, something like that and knock

(22:23):
the Celtics out and get readyfor next year.

Speaker 3 (22:26):
But my question is what kind of defense is Brunson
going to play tonight?
I mean, we don't need defense.

Speaker 4 (22:32):
They got Mikael Bridges, they got Josh Hart,
they got Cat Never mind yeahthey got Mikael Bridges and Hart
.
But yeah.

Speaker 5 (22:43):
They got some defense .
I'm sorry the Cat captain tookme out, but I think that when it
comes to your team again, it,the Celtics, are so good, but I
feel like the Knicks have torise to this occasion, like you
have to dispel the littlebrother in the East Ruber, this
is you're at home.
They don't have their bestplayer who again was literally

(23:07):
going toe to toe with y'all andthey, they don't got that guy.
No more Again.
It's just John got Derek white,that that that we shot the ball
.
Dudes, you feel me, y'all are,y'all are.
Y'all are crazy, y'all are.
But, I think that when it comesto how well he played last game,
that's what scares me, becauseyou don't factor for that all

(23:28):
the time.
You're just like oh, we got tostop Jalen, we got to stop Chris
Hassell from getting on theboards.
You're not going to count forDerek White hitting five threes.
You're not going to count forPeyton Pritchard or Luke Cordell
locking down defensively.
So this has to be and I knowthat you just throw a lot of
shade at Kat Kat's got todominate.
This can't be one of thosegames where Kat decides, you
know, to turn into Big Purr.

(23:49):
You feel me that ain't the timefor that.

Speaker 1 (23:52):
That ain't the time for that.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 (23:55):
Kat got to turn up she cannot be Big.
Purr, tonight Minnesota pulledthe Dallas Mavs yeah.

Speaker 4 (24:05):
Wasn't that bad.
I wonder how long.
I wonder if Julius Randall'sgoing to be playing like this
next year, Once he gets paid.
Once he gets paid.

Speaker 5 (24:12):
Shoot.
I ain't never seen him playthis good in the playoffs.
That's what I was counting onfor, why we were winning.
Yeah, really.

Speaker 4 (24:18):
We turned him up.

Speaker 5 (24:19):
apparently we gave him the confidence.
It was like beating us.

Speaker 4 (24:22):
And then he was like oh wait, I'm doing this right.
I didn't even mean to likethrow a shade at Cat there, but
I was like I was just thinkinglike the seven feet, like
physically imposing, and then Iwas like, oh yeah, he just
doesn't play defense, yeah.

Speaker 5 (24:33):
And it's always in foul trouble.
So yeah, cat.

Speaker 4 (24:35):
Somehow he gets in foul trouble playing no defense.

Speaker 3 (24:39):
Always he wants to get a rest or something or go to
the bench.
But yeah, I don't know, thatwas actually a Shaq tactic, so
like, if Shaq I remember he hasa hilarious story of like he had
a huge birthday party plannedand he really didn't feel like
playing so he purposely got liketwo quick fouls to start the

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game to be on the bench.
So yeah, that is a real thing.

Speaker 6 (25:03):
That they would do.

Speaker 3 (25:04):
And, like you said, Brunson smartly got his sixth
foul because Tibbs would havejust kept him in the game the
whole time Probably would havebroke his ankle.

Speaker 5 (25:11):
No, we can come back.

Speaker 4 (25:12):
We got this.
No dude, please.

Speaker 5 (25:14):
Y'all are down, please, we're not going to do it
.

Speaker 3 (25:20):
No no that's just a tragedy, man, but okay, well,
yeah, so Celtics man can't wait,but this show will be over by
the time.
So we'll, you know, talk aboutit next week and, if you know,
if the Celtics win, we mighthave an emergency show.
And you know, if something goesthe other way, we'll just wait,

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talk about it.
Oh, so we got to wait, buty'all was quick, just wait.
Speaker 2.

Speaker 5 (25:44):
Speaker 3.

Speaker 4 (25:44):
Talk about it?
Speaker 4.
Oh, so we got away.

Speaker 5 (25:45):
But y'all was quick.
Y'all was quick with the LakersDay after everybody texted me
Speaker.

Speaker 3 (25:49):
2.
There was a very high demand,so we had to put something
together.

Speaker 5 (25:52):
Speaker 3.
Everybody texted me.
Hey, what happened?
Chris oh Speaker 2.

Speaker 4 (25:58):
We couldn't even make it into the studio If the
Celtics lose.
They don't have Tatum and welost without Curry Y'all lost
with healthy.
Lebron healthy Luka.

Speaker 3 (26:10):
No, not switching my pick oh.

Speaker 4 (26:11):
LeBron was hurt.

Speaker 3 (26:12):
Don't need to switch my pick.
I'm good, confident.
Yeah, like I said, we got twoOlympians on the team, another
guy that could have been anOlympian all-stars, another $300
million guy on the roster.
We got plenty, Plenty, plentyof ammunition.
So, all right, minnesota.
Yeah, a lot of people are onthe Minnesota train now all of a

(26:33):
sudden, so we got to talkMinnesota when we get to that.
So next topic, let's go aheadand talk about Game 7.
All right, nuggets and OKC.
So I was, you know, wasn't sureif it was going to go seven.
Look like OKC might go aheadand be able to take care of

(26:54):
business early.
But again, part of a championNuggets showed up at home.
I knew that was going to be atough one for the OKC Thunder to
get to.
You know they didn't want to goout like that, the crowd
represented.
But that game actually turned.
And that game turned at the endof the first half because the

(27:16):
Thunder were up by about 10,10-ish points in the last couple
of minutes and SGA got hisfourth foul, and that was a foul
he fouled.
I don't know what he was doing,why he was reaching like that,
but then they just kept.
He was on the bench.
I thought they actually shouldhave just kept him in the game
at that point because it's like,okay, you're going to, you're

(27:39):
letting the game slip anyway.
The odds of him getting hisfifth foul, I think, were very.
I just would have rolled thedice Because they ended up
losing the game because of thatanyhow.
So roll the dice and hopefullyyou can keep that lead.
That gave the Nuggets all themomentum when they pretty much
erased that lead going intohalftime.
I think Dort hit a three at theend, so they were up three.

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All the momentum had been takenaway, but I felt like the game
changed at that point.
So what's your take on thisgame?
Seven what do you think isgoing to happen, man?
What do we have to look out for?
Diego?

Speaker 4 (28:11):
Yeah, I got OKC in this game.
I think they're going to bounceback and so they got the home
court, which I think is huge.
The crowd is going to be hypeand I think Jalen Williams is
going to play a lot better,because now people have been
doubting him a little bit.
He went 3 for 15 at 6 points.

Speaker 5 (28:30):
He shot tour dates, this whole playoffs.

Speaker 4 (28:35):
It's been rough for him, but I think he's going to
show up when needed Chet and thewhole crew, sg.
I think he's going to watch hisfoul trouble too, because he
knows how big of an impact thatcan leave on OKC.
So go with him.

Speaker 3 (28:52):
Now we want to talk conspiracy theory.
Okay, when has SGA or any starplayer ever gotten four fouls in
the first half?
So we want to talk conspiracytheory.
Did the NBA want a game seven?
Because that's what we allreally wanted.
But one more thing before we goto UC Payne Diego the t-shirt

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game at OKC, man.
What are they going to do?
I mean, man, shout out to OKCand their crowd with their
t-shirt game.
Man, how they all have the sameshirt.
I don't see how they coordinateand do that, even when they go
with the two-tone one half hasblue and the other half has
white.
What do you think they're goingto roll out tonight?

Speaker 4 (29:31):
I think they're going to do black and blue.
Either black and blue or maybeorange-blue, I don't know.
Yeah, I think orange, they arejust orange.
That'd be fine, yeah that wouldbe fine but I'd predict a black
and blue since they did whiteand blue last game.

Speaker 3 (29:46):
I love that yeah, and I don't even see how.
Then then, and everyone had me.
You know, people are alldifferent sizes, so I'm like,
all right, how do you coordinatethat and make sure everyone has
the right size?

Speaker 4 (29:56):
yeah, I'm just fascinated by how, especially
because the warriors, they gotpeople sitting front court.

Speaker 5 (30:01):
They don't even have anything associated with
warriors oracle arena with them,strength of numbers, shirts
Y'all.
I'm telling you that was everysingle time watching every
Golden State series.
It was terrifying because youknow that was Warriors chance.
Steph hits a big three, clayheats up.
It was awe, it was great.

(30:22):
That is the definition of aura.
I miss Oracle, though.

Speaker 6 (30:26):
I miss Oracle not anymore.

Speaker 5 (30:29):
Chase Hunter is definitely depleted right down
there.
It's not good.
I hope they do all white,though.
For me personally like bringback that whole, like Russ Katie
feeling all white.
Have some towels going shirtand towel All white.
Okay, yeah, have some towelsgoing.
Yeah, just have a white outfit,have a shirt and towel.

Speaker 3 (30:47):
Yeah, it'll be hot.
It'll be hot, all right.
What's your take on this game?
I think you already kind oftouched on it, yeah.

Speaker 5 (30:55):
I mean the true battle for the MVP at this point
and everybody's mind,regardless of who ends up
winning it.
I mean, this is the definingperformance of who everybody's
going to view the MVP this year.
Because you already see people,especially after Jokic's second
40-point game this series,where it was like, oh, he's the
best player, but his team sucks.

(31:15):
And now his team finally showsup and everybody all of a sudden
conveniently forgets thatEverybody's like, oh, but Jokic
is still.
It's like we can't have it bothways with this MVP argument.
So, Shea, don't foul bro.
This is the time to show up,man, Because you're going up
against Game 7.
I think that, like I think, Game5 and Jokic starting to hit

(31:37):
those Jokic-type shots, finallycueing the thunder into like, oh
, this is what we actually haveto face and deal with.
I'm excited.
I do think again, NBAconspiracy theory.
They know how good theseplayoffs have been.
They know how good this Nuggets.
You gotta extend the serieswith two MVP candidates at least
.
I feel like you know, Kate,there's no reason not to do that

(32:05):
, even with celtics knicks.
I mean, why wouldn't you extendthat boston new york rivalry?
So hey, and if silver ispressing the right buttons after
the all, after the wholeratings discourse discussion
earlier this season, theplayoffs have been really fire,
so shout out to him yeah, yeah,they have been fired.

Speaker 3 (32:15):
I just hope they don't, like like last year, end
with a dud, yeah, and that'swhere you can really see the
injuries come into play.
So the injuries, you know theyhave altered some series but
it's still been entertaining andexciting to see, especially
having a good game every night.
But at some point it takes itstoll and we could possibly see,

(32:36):
depending on how things go, thefinals finals, unfortunately is
where we might realize.
I hope not, but that's where wemight realize the you know,
playoffs not living up, becauselast year was that was like it
does the way it seems like theWestern Conference semifinals
and finals are like the NBAfinals this year and so I don't
know what can be better thanthis OK denver series that

(33:01):
definitely, this definitelyfeels like the nba finals in a
lot of ways, and then after thatit's like, whoever the wolves
play, like that's.

Speaker 5 (33:08):
Ah, I'm excited yeah, that's uh.

Speaker 3 (33:11):
We'll have to touch on that in a little bit when we
talk sga and ant.
But uh, yeah, because a lot ofpeople are now jumping on the
minnesota train.
Now, all of a sudden, theirteam is so complete and no holes
when we were all throwing dartsat it before.
Now, all of a sudden they'rethis complete team because they
beat a Steph Curry-less, youknow, warrior squad.

(33:32):
So I think there's a little bitof recency bias going on there,
but we'll talk about that in aminute.
All right, but next let's goahead and talk about our Indiana
Pacers.
All right, indiana Pacers.
There are some people on thisset who have been extremely
critical of the Indiana Pacers.

Speaker 5 (33:52):
Please note that possessive pronoun.
This man just said our IndianaPacers, let's watch back a
couple episodes.

Speaker 4 (33:59):
real quick people, let's hold on.

Speaker 5 (34:03):
I'll let you cook.
I'll let you cook.
Be a fan Be a fan.

Speaker 3 (34:06):
Pacers beat the Cavs or the Cavs were depleted, beat
them in five games, won theother series.
I believe they won that in five, so they won five-five.
Now they are in what's up,johnny-o.
Yeah, so Indiana is here, andso have you guys overlooked them
.
You guys, man, I don't rememberbeing.

(34:28):
Why are they getting lucky?
We see some comments that saymixed bag so far.
Hold on.

Speaker 5 (34:32):
I don't remember being the only one saying that
they were a sleeper team, buteverybody looked at me like I
had a chicken you did.

Speaker 3 (34:40):
You did that they were a sleeper team.

Speaker 5 (34:40):
but everybody looked at me like I had a chicken, Like
I developed a second head onthe side of my neck.
Everybody was looking at mecrazy.
Now, was I slightly overratingTyrese Halliburton at this point
?
He didn't realize that theyhave a bunch of killers on that
team.
Pascal Siakam is one of thebetter playoff performers right
now in the East.
Miles Turner, even though he'sall in trade rumors every single
year, regardless of theplayoffs, he's going to show up,

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defend, well, hit his threes.
Andrew Nibhard like all of asudden becomes one of the best
shooters we've ever seen.
Obie Toppin plays really wellLike they have.
They're so well-rounded whereTyrese doesn't necessarily have
to play that Trae Young role oflike oh, I have to shoot and be
the main distributor of theoffense.
It's like all I gotta do is geteverything set up for everybody
else to eat and then, like,pick my spots in the big moments

(35:24):
to win.
So I like that formula.
Now it is boring becauseeverybody's like oh well,
there's not like a star star,it's like, it's not like it's
grabbing me.
It's not like a name, you feel,because pascal siakam doesn't
have the same name.
Value ofalen Brunson or CarlAnthony Towns, right, but
they're such a good team,they're very well-rounded.
And again, celtics fans duringthat sweep last year were like,

(35:46):
hey, these games were close.
So also shout out to my friendDJ for getting the series right,
because he did predict Pacersat five and I looked at him
crazy before Big shout out.
He was Big shout out.
Yeah, yeah, he was on that.
He was on that for sure yeah,big, big shout out, okay.

Speaker 3 (36:03):
So, diego, did you overestimate.

Speaker 4 (36:06):
Uh, I'm sorry, underestimate the pacers man uh,
no, um, you said the pacers area sleeper team.
Well, I'm still.
I'm still asleep.
I'm not looking at you, allright man, I'm still asleep.
All I'm not looking at you, allright man, I'm still asleep.

Speaker 5 (36:19):
All right, Conference finals.
You're asleep, All right bro.

Speaker 4 (36:21):
Yes, I am Still asleep, all right, yeah, I mean
so.
They beat the Milwaukee Bucks,relying on Kyle Kuzma to step up
and Dame tore his Achilles aninjured team.
Then they go to the next round.
They go into the Cavs withoutthree starters and two all-stars
, Win that everyone's going allcrazy.

(36:42):
Then they get an easy ride tothe conference finals.
It's just, I just don't see it.
Tyrese Halliburton just doingall types of crazy passes, 360
passes.

Speaker 1 (36:55):
You said he's swinging the ball.

Speaker 4 (36:56):
He's definitely swinging the ball.

Speaker 1 (36:58):
He's definitely swinging it.
He's definitely swinging theball.
He's definitely swinging it.
He seems like a great teammate.

Speaker 4 (37:01):
I think everybody would love to play with him.
Oh yeah, he feeds everybody therock for sure.

Speaker 3 (37:06):
He would Shout out to Julian.
Can we bring that comment backup?
I did see that.
Yeah.
So, pacers fan, thank you forchecking us out.
We really appreciate you.
So, julian, you got to be withus because we like to mess with
the Pacers, but it's all in fun.
So I don't take it personally.
We like to mess with the Pacersand have fun with them, but we
really appreciate you checkingus out.
And they are dangerous.

(37:26):
They are a dangerous team.
I will give them that.
I've given them a lot of griefhere.
I've talked a lot of trash SomeI meant, some I didn't but
we'll see, man, we'll see.
It's going to be interesting tosee what they do in the next
round.
It's interesting If, for somereason, I just have this funny
feeling if the Knicks cansomehow knock the Celtics off

(37:50):
because they don't have Tatum, Icould definitely see the Pacers
beating the Knicks.
I could definitely see that fora couple of reasons.
I mean one yeah, the Pacersplay really good defense, so
they definitely do that.
But then also Brunson this isnot to take anything away from
the Pacers.
This truly is not a shot.
I'm worried about Brunson, withhim continuing to tweak that

(38:11):
ankle.
He cannot keep doing that everysingle game.
One of these days he's notgoing to come back.
So I think the Pacers have alot going for them.
They have a lot on their side.
They definitely, you know, havebeen disrespected and so
they've got a lot of motivationand a lot to play for.
So I would not be shocked,especially by the Knicks do

(38:32):
their thing.
I would not be shocked to seethem in the finals.
I wouldn't.
That would be.
That would be really, reallyinteresting.

Speaker 4 (38:39):
I could see something like last year happening with
that series.

Speaker 3 (38:45):
That'll be a trip Alright.
Well, hey, man, but they're inthe Eastern Conference Finals
back-to-back A lot of teams thatmaybe aren't as stacked from
top to bottom.
When they do make that run,they don't come back, like the
Hawks that year.
We haven't heard from themsince, not at all.
You know what I mean, so creditto them.

(39:06):
It does take a lot to come back, even if you have some things
bounce your way.
You know got to give themcredit.
So we'll see.
The biggest question is goingto be if they do make it to the
finals.
If they do make it to thefinals, does dad get the
comeback Now?

Speaker 5 (39:21):
the bird is down.
Listen, you got, even though itwas bad, just like what he said
, what he said to Yadis.
You gotta let your son hoop inthe finals.

Speaker 1 (39:32):
That's a family dream , right there you feel me.

Speaker 5 (39:34):
We can talk about how out of pocket that was to just
jump into Yadis' face and liketalk all that trash and stuff,
very disrespectful.

Speaker 4 (39:42):
I think he'll stay quiet if he can.
Yeah, like shoot what's up,fellow yeah.

Speaker 5 (39:48):
What's up?
Just doing nothing?

Speaker 4 (39:51):
I wouldn't even say a word.

Speaker 6 (39:52):
I'll just be like good job For real.

Speaker 5 (39:55):
Hit a golf clap real quick.

Speaker 3 (39:56):
You feel me he will be on his best he will be on his
best, it's a BGA tour, it willbe on his best behavior, all
right, okay, cool.
Well, let's get.
I know y'all are ready for thisman.
Let's talk a little bit of NFLand then we'll come back to NBA.
But let's talk about the NFLschedule.
All right, some of these biggames that are coming up, the

(40:19):
schedule has been released.
Uh, man, and I'm just blownaway by all that every single
team does to announce theschedule like they're.
Just, I tell you, man, the nflmean, there's no better.
The nba used to be the ultimatemarketing machine and the way
they marketed.
But who markets better than thenfl?
Yes, I mean, man, my, mygoodness.
But what?
What are you excited for, diego?

Speaker 4 (40:39):
man.
The game I have my eye on inparticular is Week 12 Monday
Night Football Carolina Panthersversus San Francisco 49ers.
You know this is the first timein seven years we have had our
own Monday Night Football game.
You know it's really crazy.
Coming off a year we had noprimetime games.
This is big for us and we'regoing to go into San Francisco

(41:03):
overpaid Brock Purdy andChristian McCaffrey.
We're the ones that builtChristian McCaffrey up.
Christian McCaffrey would notbe the same without us.

Speaker 5 (41:12):
I mean sure we're not the same without him.
So I don't know what?

Speaker 4 (41:19):
Yeah, well, everybody knows that he came from us.
So you know we start, you knowwe're going to go in there and
we're going to beat him, andthat's going to be a thing
Everybody's going to be excitedto.
After Monday, come from schoolwork and, like man, turn on the
Carolina Panthers game.

Speaker 3 (41:32):
You know that's how it's going to be Now.
Are we sure?
Have we verified that this isnot a doubleheader?

Speaker 4 (41:37):
No, it is not a doubleheader.
Not a doubleheader.

Speaker 3 (41:40):
It's a solo game, solo Solo Sunday game.

Speaker 5 (41:44):
Monday night football game.
I mean yeah.

Speaker 3 (41:45):
Monday night.
Yeah, because we know it's notSunday night.
Because, yeah, if they ever geton Sunday night, because the
Sunday night is the new Mondaynight.
So the true, true, true, truegame of the week is the Sunday
night game, but still not goingto take nothing away from the
Panthers.

Speaker 4 (41:59):
I've never seen the Panthers playing a Sunday night
game.
Yeah, I don't know if that'sever happened.

Speaker 3 (42:05):
Brandon, that might be a job for you, Brandon.

Speaker 5 (42:08):
You have to let us know if the Panthers ever played
on a Sunday night, Wellprobably in the Cam days,
because I think I do rememberthem playing Seattle actually.
Yeah, nah yeah.
So I think they did in the Camdays, but yeah, it's been about
10 years.

Speaker 3 (42:20):
Cam days was the last days, yeah.

Speaker 5 (42:23):
We're coming up on a decade of that man, which is
crazy, Because I saw an oldPanthers highlight 2015 looked
like 2005 clips.
I was like, oh, I am gettingold now.
That is scary.
But yeah, I'm actually mostexcited for Ravens Bills week
one Because you know, listen,you know our great MVP for our

(42:44):
discussion Week one.

Speaker 1 (42:46):
That's week one, Yep week one, Sunday night.

Speaker 5 (42:49):
Sunday night is going to get real spicy.
Listen, let Lamar go to Buffalo.
Win that one, I'm already.

Speaker 4 (42:58):
You know the season is the regular season.

Speaker 5 (43:01):
I got you.
It is the regular season.

Speaker 4 (43:03):
He'd probably win the MVP, which means he's probably
not going to win the.

Speaker 3 (43:06):
Super Bowl yeah, that is true.
I have heard Lamar is in thelead for the MVP right now for
the regular season, so yeah,Ravens by 30.
I think, if he at least throwsfor 200 yards and gets a
touchdown, I think he will be inthe lead for MVP.
Yes, for sure.

Speaker 5 (43:24):
That's a lot of shade right there.
All right, don't get me startedon this one right now.
Don't get me started on thisone right now.
We already have a lake of stuff.
I got but Ravens-Bills and thenfor me the Eagles-Commanders
matchups during the next.
Because again, two great teams Imean again Commander-Surprise

(43:46):
team how do they build on that?
How do they build against goingup against the Super Bowl team
in their division?
And then on top of that you seethe comebacks that Jaden
Daniels has had versus them.
Yeah, especially last year.
I'm very excited to see thosematchups as well.
But, yeah, ravensville is inboth the Eagles-Commanders games
.
For me I'm most excited to see.

Speaker 3 (44:07):
Okay, yeah, I'm excited to see that.
Well, brianna, we got to bringour homegirl back.
Princess of Pick'em Pros.
Brianna, what's going on, brie?
Nothing much all right, allright.
So, uh, yeah, now you got nowBrie, we know you got about five
teams.
All right, we know you havemany teams from your world
travel.
So I believe you got theFalcons, you got the Lions, you

(44:30):
got the uh Cardinals.
I mean, who else?

Speaker 4 (44:32):
you have Panthers no not the Panthers that was a
quick consideration, that was aquick consideration.

Speaker 5 (44:41):
That was a quick.

Speaker 2 (44:42):
I'm not hesitant.

Speaker 3 (44:43):
What I feel so that's three strong ones that I
mentioned.
Who am I missing?

Speaker 2 (44:52):
it's not five, it's just the three.
But the falcons are like lessthan the lions and the cardinals
.

Speaker 3 (44:58):
Lions, cardinals, falcons are like less than, okay
, lions and the cardinals seeokay, okay, lions, cardinals,
okay.
So then falcons are just alittle yeah, they're just like.

Speaker 2 (45:04):
It's like they're playing against like a team and
I'm just watching it.
I'm gonna go for the falconsgotcha.

Speaker 3 (45:09):
Okay, all right, gotcha, gotcha.
So what?
What has your attention?
Uh, as far as this schedule?

Speaker 2 (45:16):
um, well, definitely week two, the Eagles versus the
Chiefs.
That would be a good matchup,again since the Eagles beat them
in the Super Bowl.
But also, diego, going back tosaying Brock Purdy overpaid.
He's from my hometown here inArizona.

Speaker 4 (45:33):
Don't hate on him.

Speaker 2 (45:36):
Yeah, actually fun fact.

Speaker 3 (45:37):
Yeah, don't hate, I did not know that.

Speaker 2 (45:42):
Yeah, didn't know that 49ers, but I like rock
pretty okay.
His high school was like nottoo far from me, so all right,
all right, well, that's oh, andanother game.
It's also the chiefs, because Ihate the chiefs not hate, I
guess, but you them against theBills, week nine.
I think that will be a goodmatchup because the Bills are a

(46:05):
really good team.
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (46:07):
Yeah, I was thinking that was going to go.

Speaker 3 (46:09):
We already know how that goes.
Yeah, we'll see where that do.
You know where that one is?

Speaker 2 (46:15):
I think it's in Buffalo.

Speaker 3 (46:17):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (46:17):
Yeah, well, that would be a good one.

Speaker 5 (46:19):
We know how to.

Speaker 4 (46:20):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You need the Bills, you needthe playoffs.

Speaker 5 (46:23):
You need the playoffs , you need the Chiefs.

Speaker 2 (46:26):
Well, the Lions are winning the Super Bowl this year
.
Okay, so let's yeah.

Speaker 4 (46:29):
I actually agree.

Speaker 2 (46:30):
Calm down.
Yeah, don't take the.

Speaker 4 (46:32):
Panthers.
I could definitely see thembeing the Panthers.
Really only competition in theseason, what?

Speaker 2 (46:40):
man there you go that's so sad.
I'll give the Lions the edgeyeah, the Lions slight itch
slight itch the Lions actuallyplay the Ravens in week 3, so so

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two things I want to coverwhile we have everybody here.

Speaker 3 (47:05):
Um, one is the ravens brutal schedule to start their
season, and then the bears wantto talk a little bit about the
bears, because I think we gotsomebody on this set that's
starting to get really high oncaleb william and the bears, and
then we can also touch on howCaleb didn't want to go to the
Bears.
So those are three thingsoverall.
So let's start with the Ravens.

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Start with the Ravens.
Homer here, lamar Jackson,apologies, c-pain, what up?
So, man, dude, y'all going togo?
What are you guys going to goto start the season?
I guess what.
First six games.
Is that what's?

Speaker 5 (47:40):
so brutal, let me pull it up.

Speaker 3 (47:45):
We want a prediction on the record of what's going to
happen.
While you look that up, we gota question what do we think
about the Lions playingThanksgiving and Christmas?
I didn't realize they wereplaying Christmas.

Speaker 2 (47:56):
I didn't either.
I knew they.

Speaker 4 (47:58):
I haven't seen the Christmas schedule yet.
Yeah, I didn't realize theywere playing Christmas.
Yeah, I didn't either.
I knew they.
I haven't seen the Christmasschedule yet.
Yeah, I haven't seen it, so Iknow the Chiefs played Christmas
?

Speaker 3 (48:04):
Yes, but who knows if they play the Broncos?

Speaker 2 (48:08):
The Lions play the Vikings on Christmas.

Speaker 3 (48:11):
Ooh, ooh, okay, oh, yeah, yeah, that'll be good.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So thank you for that question.
Yeah, yeah, I love it.

Speaker 2 (48:18):
I love it.
It's about the Vikings.

Speaker 4 (48:20):
Yeah, I love it.
Cowboys also play onThanksgiving and Christmas.

Speaker 3 (48:23):
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (48:26):
Oh, wow, man, there's going to be good matchups this
year.

Speaker 3 (48:28):
Right, great matchups .
So yeah, great question, joe.
And so yeah, it looks like theNFL is continuing to take
Christmas from the NBA.

Speaker 1 (48:36):
Yes, for sure.

Speaker 3 (48:38):
Especially with these teams that are going to be
playing.
My goodness, so I'm not surewhat.
So last year Christmas was on aWednesday.

Speaker 5 (48:45):
Yeah, it was Thursday , so I don't know if it's.

Speaker 3 (48:47):
Thursday or if it's Friday.
I'm not sure if we're leapingyet or not, but yeah, that's
going to be.

Speaker 4 (48:53):
They're getting their get back for having the Luka
trade right before the SuperBowl.
Oh that's right.

Speaker 3 (48:58):
That's right.
Keep on messing with the NBA,all right, they're going to pull
something else out.

Speaker 4 (49:04):
Lebron get traded, oh wow, wow, wow, wow.

Speaker 5 (49:08):
Too far that's right.
Let's not do that one.

Speaker 3 (49:11):
That's right.
That's right.
Opening weekend, LeBron mightretire.

Speaker 4 (49:16):
We're going to take all the headlines away, Then kid
LeBron might retire.

Speaker 5 (49:19):
We're going to take all the headlines away, then you
would just see Chris falling tohis knees and crying because,
oh, that would hurt All right,I'll be fine.
Will I?
I don't think I will.

Speaker 3 (49:34):
All right, so Ravens, how are the Ravens going to
start this year off 0-6?

Speaker 5 (49:39):
2-4.
Okay, calm down, calm down.
So first we got Ravens-BillsToss-up.
I give the Ravens in therevenge game.
Okay, browns, ravens.

Speaker 4 (49:51):
Ironically this is where I have one of their weird
losses, yeah.

Speaker 3 (49:57):
I can see that.

Speaker 5 (49:58):
I would say they're going to lose the Browns, which
might be crazy.
Okay, the Lions.
Oh gosh, I didn't make it back.
I thought about that.
No, not at all.
All right, I bought more ofthat one.
The Chiefs oh godly, oh yeah, Ibelieve that they can beat the
Chiefs.
The Texans they whooped aboutChristmas.

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The Rams that might be a loss,at best 4-2, 3-3.
That's all I'm saying.
It is a very rough start.
I don't know who they tickedoff.
I don't know what happened inthe NFL League office.
Who made who mad?
Because these are all playoffteams outside of the Browns and
inexplicably they just end uplosing to the Browns randomly.
It's very weird.

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So yeah, let's see, let's see aperfect time.
He happens to Cleveland For real.
I have no idea.

Speaker 3 (50:51):
I think 4-2 at best 4-2 would be amazing.

Speaker 4 (50:56):
At worst, I'm going to say 2-4.

Speaker 5 (50:58):
At worst 2-4.
Didn two and four.
Yeah, at worst two and four,three and three.

Speaker 4 (51:01):
Didn't they start off this year 0-2?

Speaker 5 (51:03):
They started off 0-2, and then they went 8-5.

Speaker 3 (51:07):
I can see something like that happening, okay, so
let's talk, because we'regetting a little short on time,
so we'll pick up a little bithere.
We've got Bears, all right, soyou're paying.
You're high on caleb williamsand the bears.
If you know, he didn't want togo chicago, all right, but now
they got, you know, a guy from,uh, detroit yeah, over there is

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their coach.
So why, why are you so high oncaleb and listen?

Speaker 5 (51:33):
so, after re-watching his highlights, looking up his
stats from last year, he threwover 3,500 yards, 20 touchdowns,
less than six interceptionswith the worst offensive line
and getting sacked 68 times morethan any quarterback in the
league.
They upgraded their offensiveline.
You actually have a dude whoknows how to operate a
functional offense.

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So the fact that Caleb was ableto do that with again everybody
can talk about how good theirskill position players are.
That coaching staff washorrible, in fact.
The reason why he didn't evenwant to go to the Bears is
because, as one of the greatcities in the NFL where
quarterbacks go to die Clevelandand Chicago.
Historically if it would be JimMcMahon and Bernie Kosar, the
two greatest quarterbacks ofthose organizations Not a great

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list.
So the fact that Ben Johnsonhas faith in Caleb I mean you
talked about how Caleb's goingto be this year the first Bears
quarterback to throw for over4,000 guards which crazy stat.

Speaker 1 (52:27):
I can't even believe that.

Speaker 5 (52:30):
But again, they have a very solid defense.
Ben Johnson, because you'vebeen hyped as the offensive
wonder kid, as the next greatoffensive line in the NFL,
you're going to want to prove itthis year.
Again, you're in the divisionwith your old team, so why not
stick it to them a couple timesand be like hey, this is my show
now.
Thank you for leading me up,but now I'm the guy now.

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So I really like how Chicagocould be this year.

Speaker 3 (52:56):
They're my sleeper team.
They're your sleeper team.
They, chicago, could be thisyear.
They're my sleeper team,they're your sleeper team.
They're my sleeper team.
You definitely have them goingto the playoffs.

Speaker 5 (53:00):
Yes, it sounds like they're your sleeper team.
Wild card, wild card.

Speaker 3 (53:03):
Bree, what do you think about the Bears this year?
Do you have any thoughts yet onthem?

Speaker 2 (53:07):
I mean, I don't want to say too much because I'm a
Lions fan, but my sister likesthe Bears.
I know what happened there, but, um, I feel like they could
possibly do good this year, butnot to beat the lions?
Obviously because yeah, I meanthey took ben johnson from us so
they're not gonna get a win outof us either, but I mean I

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think they would do good becausecaleb williams, he is a good
quarterback.
He just needs to pull it alltogether with a good team, I
guess.
So yeah.

Speaker 3 (53:41):
So who can they be?
So okay, we're not going to saythey're going to finish higher
than the lions, but they finishhigher than the packers or the,
because I mean the.
The division is stacked now.
The packers are the vikings.
Diego, do you think they canfinish higher than either of
those teams?

Speaker 4 (53:59):
I think they could, over the vikings.
I'm not going to predict it,but I could see ab.
Definitely not the lions orpackers, I think like eight and
nine.

Speaker 2 (54:07):
Okay, maybe the vikings well, jj mccarthy starts
for the vikings right, yeah,yeah, it's just unknown.

Speaker 4 (54:15):
So I mean, yeah, I wouldn, I wouldn't.
It's a toss-up really, yeah,it's tough.

Speaker 3 (54:21):
That's tough to call.
Yeah, a lot of it depends onthe Vikings quarterback
situation.
So, yeah, I'm a little leery.
I've seen some flashes of Caleb, but he can still hold on to
the ball.
He held on to the ball a lot atUSC.
That concerns me a little bitand I just don't.
I still, at the end of the day,feel as bad as an organization

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can be.
I don't know if I truly buyinto that as far as the
quarterback killer, because Ithink if you're really that dude
, you can overcome that.
The main example I have withthat is Joe Burrow.
Now, again, you can look at hisreceiver.
Right, he got an all-worldreceiver.
But I mean, shoot, we were allgoing into last year with the

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Bears.
All we talked about was howstrong they were at receiver,
all these moves they made towelcome Caleb in.
Why didn't they do all thiswhen they had Justin Fields?
You know what I'm saying.
And then all of a sudden heplays poorly and it's all well,
it's the Bears, it's theorganization.
I'm like, ah, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (55:20):
I just think in the past they've evaluated talent
badly, like Trubisky and Fields,and when they left they didn't
do anything crazy.
And Caleb, I think that was agreat pick.
I think he's going to end upbeing good and that's just going
to show that they just hadn'tevaluated talent well earlier
and that they just needed toevaluate it good, alright.

Speaker 3 (55:45):
Well, great discussion.
I know we've got to move on toour last two topics and get on
out of here because we're aboutat time.
But, bree, we will be lookingout for your Will Hernandez
interview next week.
And congrats on graduation,thank you and we'll be talking
to you soon.

Speaker 2 (56:03):
Perfect, Yep talk soon All right.

Speaker 3 (56:08):
All right, y'all.
So let's move on here.
We got two more quick ones andthen we've got to bring Brandon
in for his recap, so let's tryto go through these a little
quicker.
So we've got Ant because, also,you know, celtics are about to
go into game six and win thisgame and get to game seven, so I
got to check out the Celticsgame here.
All right, so we could have, ifOKC wins this game, all right,

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we will have Ant versus SGA.
So let's go ahead andprematurely preview this a
little bit.
That could be the showdownbattle of the next generation.
If this is the matchup, we knowMinnesota's already there.
What do you guys think?
Diego, start with you.
What do you think about thispotential showdown for next
generation here?

Speaker 4 (56:51):
I definitely have OKC 100%.
I see something like last yearhappening because, you know,
when they were the underdogagainst Phoenix, I remember,
like last year people weren't asthey were the underdog against
phoenix.
No, I remember like last yearpeople weren't as high on the
timbrel and they beat them.
They beat denver, then theconference finals, they had all
this hype and then just to getgentlemen swept by luca and luca

(57:12):
just totally, son aunt.
I think the same thing is goingto happen.
So like like he, they, theywere.
Everyone was high on the lakersand they beat the Lakers and
they beat the Warriors, evenwithout Steph, but people still
were high on them for that, forsome reason, and you know,
they're going to come in and theThunder are going to come off a
tough seven games and theThunder are going to just

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totally shock them.
That's what I have happening.

Speaker 5 (57:40):
I do have the thunder winning this, what's going to
be closer than people thinkbecause of julius randall.
I think that that was a verygreat trade for minnesota.
It weirds me out because Ieverybody's like, oh, you got
rid of the thing that beatyokich and then you actually
have a guy who's a very goodrunning mate, who wants to take
the big shots and be in the bigmoments, unlike a Carl Anthony

(58:03):
Towns, which is somebody youneed alongside Ant.
You can't necessarily because,again, you can have Rudy, but
you need somebody else to helpoffset the offensive load.
And I really am grateful forJulius Randle for this team,
even though what he did to myLakers was, yeah, yeah, he

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remembered where he started andhe remembered how we treated him
, and then it just got bad fromthere.
So shout out to Julius.
I'm glad that he's had thisplayoff run to prove that he's
one of the better players in theNBA.
I am happy for him.

Speaker 3 (58:38):
He's doing his thing, playing ball, played great
against the Lakers, really wenthead-to-head with LeBron.
He was the perfect matchup togo against LeBron because he's
just as big, just as strong andit really really negated a lot
of the advantage that LeBrontypically has when he's in the
post, because he can just throwman ball people typically and he

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couldn't do that against Julius.
So Julius was really thedifference in that series.
Then this past series with theWarriors, he really did his
thing against Draymond.
Draymond was not able to checkhim at all.
So that does make itinteresting.
I just man, I'm really leery onMinnesota again.
Like Diego, I don't thinkthey're a team that plays well.

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With everybody patting them onthe back and expectation, it
seems like once they areexpected to win, I don't think
they're going to do well in thattype of situation.
So I think they're a year ortwo away from being able to
handle prosperity.
I think they're a year or twoaway from being able to handle
prosperity.
I just don't believe in thempast the second round against a

(59:49):
good opponent like this,especially by them being favored
.
If everyone was dogging themand telling them they had no
chance, I might believe in them,but with everybody now starting
to get on the train, I'm likeI'm leery, I'm leery, I'm leery.
And also the fact that I didn'treally see the ant that I
expected to see in this lastround.
He hasn't quite looked likethat ferocious ant that we see.

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Flashes of that we saw in, likethe first few games against the
Lakers.
To me, minnesota hasn't reallylooked all that great since game
three or four of the Lakersseries.
They just still don't look allthat polished as far as what
they can be, what they'recapable of.
Now.
Maybe they flip it on, we'llsee.

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But I'm high on OKC.
I love the pieces that theyhave.
Chet man is just scratching thesurface.
A lot.
Chet man is just scratching thesurface.
A lot of those guys are justscratching the surface.
Okc's got house money this year.
Like if they mess around to winthe title now it's just scary
because they're gonna try on sopotentially, which is still yeah
just ridiculous.

(01:00:52):
So, yeah, I hope we see it.
This would be great.
It will, uh, you know, just beanother, another great series,
but uh, yeah, we'll know.
We we'll know this weekend whatwe're going to have.
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Our final topic Dallas Mavs.

(01:01:36):
The Mavs get the number onepick.
They are going to win theCooper flag sweepstakes.
So excited about this man.
Nico Harris may have been on tosomething getting ahead of
everything I don't know.
As far as Luka goes.
And man, their starting lineuplooks scary.
It looks especially scary.

(01:01:57):
So we got a comment here fromDelcia Thompson.
Mom Dukes, the professor, theprofessor Pawpaw Thompson, my
dad, shout out to Pops, says theMavericks are riding the Duke
car with three players from Duke.
All right.
So, diego, we know that makesyou very happy.
So, man, how do you feel aboutthe Dallas Mavericks basically
being Duke South?

Speaker 4 (01:02:17):
I mean I think it's a good move because I mean Duke,
we have all the top prospects.
I mean all the top guys want togo to Duke.
And then you know the Mavericksmake the right picks by
drafting all our guys and I seeI like how you put the 77 on and
that was pretty cool.

Speaker 3 (01:02:32):
Yeah, I mean what you know.
We just we wanted to pick anavailable number for him.
That number's available.

Speaker 4 (01:02:37):
It is available this is the future face the nba right
here, cooper flag, and I justthink it's great that he gets to
go to a good team, play withall these, all these vet vets
that are experienced and I haveand that have just went to the
finals two years ago I mean meanlast year.

(01:02:57):
So I mean, yes, great.
And Nico is a genius.
He's been saying defense winschampionships.
He took all the slander and nowhe is going to have the guy
who's going to become the besttwo-way player in the NBA.
Yes, he trusted the process.

Speaker 1 (01:03:17):
And he knew that AB got hurt and you know this is

Speaker 3 (01:03:20):
what it resulted to you know.
Yeah, so Aaron Square draftlottery lottery, all right.

Speaker 5 (01:03:26):
So, yeah, a 1.8 percent chance of this happening
.
And nobody thinks that, hey,our ratings are down, let's
trade your best player to thebest market in the NBA.
Hey, because you did that, letme sweeten the deal.
You go get the next guy to addto your championship team who
fits a role that you needperfectly.
Nobody thinks that this isrigged, nobody, it's just here.

(01:03:50):
Just look.
1.8% chance.
Same thing happened last year.
If anything, you have in lifehas a 2% chance of happening,
would you take it Okay, but wehave to look.

Speaker 3 (01:04:01):
Let's look at this because I was pretty good in
math in school, all right.
So you can look at it that way,all right.
But who had more than a 14% or12% chance of winning it?
Right?
So what team?
So are we going to say who hadthe worst record?
Wizards the Wizards, okay.
Team.
So are we going to say who hadthe worst record?
Wizards the wizards okay, andthey are picking, so they're six
right, they had this, so theyhad like a 90% chance to not win

(01:04:28):
it, right?
So every team has such a finitechance to win and they flatten
the odds to prevent tanking.
Also, you've got Ernst Young,who is a well-respected
accounting firm.
They are a part of it.
If it's rigged, like late DavidStern said, if it's rigged,

(01:04:50):
then we're saying the NBA iscommitting a federal crime.
We're also saying that ErnstYoung is in it.
We're saying that every otherteam in the nba is.
Do you know how many peoplewould have to be a part of this?
And in order for this, this, tobe really actually, they need
the other teams to be on boardand it's not it.
It's not leaked at all.

(01:05:11):
It's not, it's, it's just.
They just have a completecover-up that everybody is all
on board with all right, let'ssend cooper flag Just a team and
a plan versus a team.

Speaker 5 (01:05:21):
Alright, we're going to get into that, but one
question I want to ask youbefore we go is do you think the
NFL should have a draft?

Speaker 4 (01:05:27):
lottery yes, absolutely Alright man.
Y'all killing me, the NFLshould definitely have.

Speaker 3 (01:05:34):
You should not have just the worst team get the
number one pick.
Heck, in my fantasy footballdraft that I ran, I had it to
where the last team did not getthe first pick, like I had it to
where it was staggered so youhad to if you weren't going to
make the playoffs.
Then you had incentive to winbecause the team that had the

(01:05:56):
best winning percentage oncethey were knocked out was the
team that I had to pick first.
So you need to have anincentive for winning.

Speaker 5 (01:06:03):
So, yes, I think there should definitely be a
lottery in the NFL, but my thingis like, okay, it's a 17-game
sample size and people aretrying to impress other teams
and show that they're talentedso that they can get another
contract.
So I feel like taking isn't asbig of a problem with the NFL.
The Browns suck because theBrowns suck because again they
chose it.
They chose the Sean Watson.

(01:06:23):
He got injured and was a veryterrible quarterback in that
whole office, their whole dad,crazy injuries.
You feel me?
Titans sucked because again,we'll let us.
They didn't have that guy.
I feel like taking is like avery NBA centric issue because
that whole trust, the processmess back in like 14, 15, 16.
That's a much bigger issue.

(01:06:43):
I feel like the NFL becausethere are jobs on the line.
It's like a finite amount ofgames and stuff that you can
prove that, hey, I'm actuallygood at this.
I feel like it's less of anissue.
That's why I wouldn't want alottery.
I do now with how the draft isset up, I do feel like, okay,
the worst players going toimmediately bad situations if

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you win a Heisman.
It's like, hey, you're going totrain to dysfunction.
I don't like that for theplayers.
But as for the teams, eh, Idon't really see the issue.

Speaker 3 (01:07:15):
Yeah, I'd love to have it.
I guess my retort to be likewhat does it hurt to have?

Speaker 5 (01:07:21):
a lottery in the NFL Let the Panthers go 2-15 and we
all of a sudden be able to getthe guy that could save our
franchise.
I think Panthers fans would bepretty upset about that.
If all of a sudden you'repicking six, then you can't get
the main person that you want toget and like Brandon has
created a tournament whose teamssee the 11 through 15 face off

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and the winner gets the numberone pick.

Speaker 3 (01:07:46):
I like that.
Yeah, like we need toincentivize winning.
You should not be rewarded forlosing.
So, yeah, I like that.
I like that.
But man, a shout out to DallasMavs 2026 champions.
All right, but man, but shoutout to Dallas Mavs 2026
champions for sure.
Yeah, man, nico, everyone youknow was getting on him and
getting on the franchise, butactually me and Diego, we were

(01:08:09):
on this, we were, we were, youknow, taking up for him.

Speaker 4 (01:08:14):
Yeah, yeah, I think they didn't get a fair shot.

Speaker 5 (01:08:16):
Y'all take it out for him because of y'all hatred for
Luka.
That's a different.

Speaker 4 (01:08:20):
I don't hate Luka.
You trade any other.
I have a Luka jersey.

Speaker 5 (01:08:24):
Okay, yeah, all right , all right, Let the Knicks
trade Jalen Brunson to theLakers or something.
And then you'd be like what arethe Knicks doing?
What's going on?

Speaker 4 (01:08:35):
That's Jalen Brunson, it's totally different.

Speaker 3 (01:08:37):
That's totally different yes, so Joe has a
question about the Vegas rumors,so the no, I think, joe, can
you expound on that?

Speaker 4 (01:08:56):
moving to Vegas yeah nah, I don't see that happening
is about the Mavs moving toVegas Moving to Vegas.

Speaker 3 (01:08:59):
Yeah, nah, nah.
I don't see that happening.
They're staying right in Dallas.

Speaker 5 (01:09:05):
Yeah, listen, you move that, you move Luca and you
move them to Vegas.
Oh my goodness, nah, they'restaying right in Dallas.

Speaker 3 (01:09:12):
I think they will actually end up probably adding
a franchise there at some point,whatever, but nah, I don't
think the Mavs will move there.

Speaker 5 (01:09:19):
Yes, you end up probably adding a franchise
there at some point, whatever,but no, I don't think the Mavs
will move there.
No, we're not going.

Speaker 3 (01:09:22):
We're not going to talk about LeBron.
Let LeBron keep on talkingabout the lotteries rigged and
all this other kind of stuff.
Good luck getting a franchise,my man.
Good luck with that.
Alright, let's bring on our guy, brandon Bean, who's going to
tell us why the lottery isrigged, as well as give him,

(01:09:43):
give us his three minute take onall that we talked about and
also kind of drop some pearls onsome things that's going on in
the world of sports.
So, brandon man, we're readyfor you to enlighten us with
these last three minutes.
Man, what do you want to hitfirst?

Speaker 7 (01:10:00):
Obviously, the NBA draft lottery.
All right, let's hit it, man?
I feel like no.
I think the reason why I feellike it is is that there's a you
know like a pros and cons to it.
Obviously, you know people aregoing to say, obviously, you
know people are going to say,hey, you know, we tired of

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seeing top college prospects,you know in bad organizations
wasting their you know, wastingtheir talents and careers away.
Let's send them you know, to acontender.
But if we do that now it's likeokay, well, how do you expect
these bottom three teams teamsget better if they can't get the

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top prospects every year?
So there's that.
That's why I said I'm not, likeI'm not, for you know nfl,
trying with the lottery, becausethen you're gonna to be sending
like imagine if that was thecase, imagine Ashton Jette on
the Kansas City Chiefs, or likethe Eagles, or you know any you

(01:11:08):
know well-run organization.
Now, if you're like you knowCarolina or the Saints or these
struggling franchises, you knowthey're going to be thinking
like well, how are you going tolike?
but they're going to be lookingat the NFL.
Like well, how are you going totell us it's parity or
competitive balance and yousending all the top college guys

(01:11:31):
to the contenders?
So you can't say oh it'scompetitive balance, but you're
sending Cooper Flag to Dallas, ateam that was just in the
finals a year ago, so likethat's not like parody.
To me that feels like that's acompetitive imbalance.

Speaker 3 (01:11:50):
Okay.

Speaker 7 (01:11:51):
Okay, that's why I suggest, you know, have
everybody create a tournament.
So that way you know, like youhave these bottom three teams, I
love it out.
You know, let's see who getsthe number one pick.
So that way it's like, okay,they earn that pick and you know
whoever loses.
Hey, you get the second pick,you know that part, that team

(01:12:14):
gets the third pick, you get thefourth pick and you just take
whoever's best available.
But at least that avoids youfrom you know tanking or
whatever.
Right.

Speaker 3 (01:12:26):
Just taking the season.

Speaker 7 (01:12:29):
Now you have to go out and earn it, much less just
tanking the season.
For sure, don't have a lotteryplayoff.
Yeah, there you go.
I like that.
I like that.
We'll have a lottery playoff.
Yeah, there you go.
I like that.
I like that For us.
Like, obviously, the WNBA istonight.
It's going to be an interestingseason.
Hopefully everybody stayshealthy, even though we have a

(01:12:51):
lot of injuries to start theseason.
Yeah, celtics can win in sevenif New York doesn't choke this
game tonight.
Parody I feel like it is kind ofoverrated a little bit because

(01:13:12):
I feel like at times fans wantparody but at the same time they
want to see a dynasty, so theycan't really make up their mind.
At times it's kind of likewatching the NCAA tournament and
saying, well, I like upsets,but I want to see the best

(01:13:33):
remain still in the tournament.
Yeah, because we just saw whathappened in the men's Final Four
and the National.
Yeah, because we just saw whathappened in the men's Final Four
and the National Championshipgame.
That was like probably betterthan the last two Final Fours
and last two NationalChampionship games.
So I prefer that over.
Like the UConn-San Diego Stategame or like in college football

(01:13:55):
the Georgia-TCU game one year.
College football the georgiatcu game one year.
So it's like, I think, for meI'd rather see a competitive
tournament, but also I need tosee a competitive final as well.
Okay, same thing with the nba.
Like, yes, like, make the nbaplayoffs competitive, but at
least make it the nba finals,you know, watchable.

(01:14:18):
Like you can't go into thefinals and be like, oh, it's
Pacers, knicks, or I mean Knicks, thunder or Thunder Pacers, or
T-Wolves Knicks or T-WolvesPacers Hopefully.
I'm still banking on Celticsand the Nuggets, even though

(01:14:38):
Celtics won't have Jason Tatum,that's probably the best
possible matchup left.
Okay, so, yeah, that's what I'mlooking forward to, because I
feel like if we don't getneither of those teams in the
finals, I fear that it'll becomeunwatchable, like the Bucks-Sun

(01:15:03):
series four years ago.
Yeah, that the bubble in 2020.
And they had the heat in there.
Then the obviously theNuggets-Heat finals Right,
pretty much last year's finalsand then the 2000.

Speaker 3 (01:15:23):
And Brandon, we got to cut man too, so we're out of
time.

Speaker 7 (01:15:26):
Yeah, and the 2003 finals, with the Spurs in this.
But WNBA happy for NFL seasonsback and hopefully we'll get a
competitive NBA finals.

Speaker 3 (01:15:36):
All right, All right, we'll be looking for it, man.
All right, brandon?
Well, thank you.
Thank you.
All right, we'll see you nextweek.
All right, cool, cool, allright, man.
Well, hey, again, quick promo.
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We got new stuff dropping everyweek, so definitely want to get
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Shout out to everyone forchecking us out.
We are going to get on out ofhere.
Got a new little outro, sowe're going to play on out of

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Got a new little outro, sowe're going to play that.
So you'll want to take a lookat that.
But hey, man, y'all ready tocheck out this Boston Knicks
game?
Yep.

Speaker 5 (01:16:26):
Let's see it.
All right, let's see it.

Speaker 3 (01:16:28):
Yeah, yeah, it's going to be good man Knicks is
sex Can't wait and you know, asfar as the we'll probably touch
on next week.
I want to talk about AAU andbecause we want to get down to
the root of okay, why are wehaving all these injuries,
especially Achilles injuries?

Speaker 5 (01:16:47):
Gotcha.

Speaker 3 (01:16:51):
With people that, okay, dane was a little older,
but Tatum is what like 26?
27.
27, right in there, and you'vegot a lot of younger guys that
are getting these injuries.
Is this a result of aau?
And not necessarily.
You know.
We got low management, thesedifferent things, but I just
wonder what that correlationwould be.
I mean, diego's got tournamenttomorrow, playing four games.

(01:17:12):
You know what I'm saying.
It's like these kids they'replaying year round, year round.
Uh, all the time they're notgetting a break.
So definitely want to talkabout that.
And when we're at Kings weactually will have a lot of, you
know, folks that are heavy inthe AAU game.
So just something for us totalk about later.
So a little teaser on that one,all right.
Well, let's get on out of here.

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